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Twisted on Tweas · Sips, Suds, & Smokes

• 0:00
  > Announcer>On the next episode of Sips, Suds and smokes.
• 0:04
  > Julianna>It's time for another installment of our famous summer of questionable decisions.
• 0:13
  > Dave>The teas and twees we'll be trying today are from the Boston Beer Company, AKA Twisted Tea Brewing Company. Twisted Tea Original half and half, which is a hard tea with lemonade, the peach and raspberry. Then from the Nashville Sweet Tea Company, we have Nashville Sweet Tea. Nashville Sunshine Tea, which is half tea and half lemonade, and Nashville Peach tea. Then from the Peace Tea Company, we have Razzleberry Sweet black tea with raspberries.
• 0:53
  > Announcer>We'll be right back after this break. Brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. Sips, Suds and smokes. With your smoking host, the good old boys. Suds. Suds. Suds. Uh, it's time for more suds. Foreign.
• 1:59
  > Julianna>Hello, everyone. Here we are gathered around for another sud segment where we don't really try to stay up to date on all the current Internet trends and social media fads. Heck no. I mean, in fact, good old boy Dave thinks tick tock is that tiny little breath mint. Not that he's an expert in breath mints by any means, but bye.
• 2:24
  > Announcer>What?
• 2:25
  > Dave>What do you mean? I, uh, have bad breath.
• 2:29
  > Julianna>H hm.
• 2:30
  > Dave>O, wow. It kind of blew back in my face a little bit.
• 2:32
  > Julianna>Okay, I'm one of your hosts. Good gal, Juliana.
• 2:36
  > Julianna>And joining me at the table today is our own special comedian, Good old Boy Dave.
• 2:42
  > Dave>I am better than you.
• 2:45
  > Julianna>H hm.
• 2:46
  > Dave>Not just you, baby. It's everybody.
• 2:48
  > Julianna>We'll see about.
• 2:49
  > Dave>We'll see.
• 2:51
  > Julianna>Okay, it is summer, folks, and maybe it's the heat, or maybe it's all the times he fell on his butt as a kid. But every year around this time, good a boy Dave go shopping for things that might but usually don't taste good and things that are awful and bring them back for us to try. That's right, folks. It's time for another installment of our famous summer of questionable decisions. Good old Boy Dave, what do you get up your sleeve for today?
• 3:31
  > Dave>Some people ask, uh, call it twisted. The young crowd calls it tweeze. We will probably call it gross, but that remains to be seen. We're coming into this with an open heart and an open mind. My mind is wide open. What is twisted tea, you ask?
• 3:51
  > Dave>It's a 5% ABV hard quote unquote air quotes tea that gets its hardness from a malt base instead of vodka or other liquors. Uh, ask me where I get my Hardness. Uh, you've seen them at the grocery store, convenience store, concert and sports venue, pool party. And anywhere you find people who want a buzz but maybe don't want a beer or hard seltzer. It comes from the twisted. Get it?
• 4:21
  > Dave>Twisted minds at Boston Beer company or their subsidiary, Twisted Tea Company. Uh, the people who brought us Sam Adams Boston Lager. Then they got all swole, ate up dogfish head and then decided the world needed a needs to drink a hard spiked tea spiked with beer. As a companion comparison point, we also have some cheap, very cheap, non alcoholic teas from the same grocery store. We'll do side by side taste of four twisted flavors along with their NA counterparts. Then we might do a little twisting of our own by spiking the nat with a little bit of Tater Juice. Three of the four NATs are from the Nashville Sweet Tea Company in Nashville, Tennessee, a local startup making small batch teas from a three generations old family recipe. The fourth is from Peace Teas, a Coca Cola company. All right, the teas and tweeze we'll be trying today are from the Boston Beer Company, AKA Twisted Tea Brewing Company.
• 5:40
  > Dave>Twisted Tea original half and half. Uh, Heart, which is a hard tea with lemonade, the peach and raspberry. Then from the Nashville Sweet Tea Co.
• 5:53
  > Dave>We have Nashville Sweet Tea. Nashville Sunshine tea which is half tea and half lemonade, and Nashville Peach tea. Then from the Peace Tea Company we have Razzleberry sweet black tea with raspberry berries. Yeah, whatever, dude.
• 6:19
  > Julianna>Okay, why don't you remind us of the ratings for this special occasion?
• 6:25
  > Dave>Yes, everything will be rated one or zero. Okay, sorry, that was just kidding.
• 6:30
  > Julianna>That was rude.
• 6:31
  > Dave>That was rude but hilarious. Okay, the teas and tweet. Uh, we will be tasting and rating these hard and not so hard. Tease and tweeze with our suds ratings and our signature belching sounds.
• 6:48
  > Dave>Here are Those ratings now. 1. That sucks. Give me anything but the nor but a northerner's idea of what sweet tea is. They don't know.
• 7:00
  > Julianna>Stop it.
• 7:02
  > Dave>2. Was that a belch? 3. Oh, uh, what a relief.
• 7:15
  > Dave>Four, a body should really not make that sound.
• 7:22
  > Dave>And five, listen to that hang time. Give me another. I think that's gonna be the last time you hear that five sound tonight.
• 7:35
  > Julianna>M maybe. Okay, so here are some ground rules for.
• 7:41
  > Dave>Oh, we got rules.
• 7:42
  > Julianna>We got some ground rules. Okay. Okay, so the first thing that we're going to do, um, we are tasting these on the fly, folks. So this is all in real time. So we're going to try the Meaning
• 7:53
  > Dave>we did not prep at all.
• 7:55
  > Julianna>Right, sure. We're going to do the Twisted version. Great. Get that out of the way. Then we're going to do, um, the non alcoholic version.
• 8:04
  > Julianna>And then we are going to add a smidge. Just, just a dash, just a smidge. Yeah. Of a cheap vodka that may or may not be in a plastic bottle. That would go along with the, uh, essence of what we're trying to do here.
• 8:22
  > Dave>Keeping it basic.
• 8:23
  > Julianna>Exactly.
• 8:24
  > Dave>Okay.
• 8:24
  > Julianna>Keeping it real and keeping it basic. Okay. So first up is the original Twisted tea. And in comparison to the non, uh, alcoholic version.
• 8:38
  > Dave>Mhm.
• 8:39
  > Julianna>It is a lighter.
• 8:41
  > Dave>It looks like it looks watered down cheap restaurant tea that you get at a place where they, uh, water it down and probably reuse the tea bags about seven times.
• 8:52
  > Julianna>Yeah. Versus the Nashville Sweet tea, looks like.
• 8:55
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 8:55
  > Julianna>What we would all know and love as.
• 8:58
  > Dave>And let me just say Nashville Sweet tea was just.
• 9:02
  > Dave>That's what was there at the store.
• 9:03
  > Julianna>It could be any.
• 9:04
  > Dave>You could substitute any of your local or national tea brands for this experiment.
• 9:10
  > Julianna>Yes. Okay, so upon first
• 9:16
  > Dave>slight hint of tea, I think from the Twisted, with
• 9:19
  > Julianna>maybe a little bit of alcohol, uh,
• 9:22
  > Dave>a little bit of maybe some malt something, something, something. Not right.
• 9:26
  > Julianna>Okay. So when you taste it, it's, you know, it's average on the tongue. It's not really carbonated.
• 9:37
  > Julianna>Like you wouldn't want it to be carbonated anyways.
• 9:39
  > Dave>Kind of tastes like it's turn.
• 9:41
  > Julianna>Oh, uh, well, maybe that's because there's.
• 9:45
  > Dave>I mean, I'm gonna be honest, it's not bad.
• 9:47
  > Dave>Honestly, it's not bad. It tastes like tea. But if you, if you didn't know this was spiked with something, you would think, oh, this, somebody left this tea in the fridge too long and it tastes like it maybe got turned.
• 10:02
  > Announcer>Yeah, sure.
• 10:03
  > Julianna>But now that you know that this is the um, alcoholic version or the twisted tea, you can understand why it's got that.
• 10:13
  > Dave>It's got a little wang to it, right?
• 10:15
  > Julianna>Yeah, Right. But super iced down. In the summer you could see people drinking it.
• 10:22
  > Dave>Not people I like, but people. Yeah, people.
• 10:25
  > Dave>People would drink this.
• 10:27
  > Julianna>So it's not completely offensive.
• 10:29
  > Dave>It's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
• 10:31
  > Julianna>Okay. All right, well that's, that's not bad. And what would you like to rate this by itself?
• 10:36
  > Dave>Oh, it's still a two.
• 10:38
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 10:39
  > Dave>Yeah, it's still a two.
• 10:41
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 10:41
  > Dave>Well just let's not, uh, you know, get crazy.
• 10:44
  > Julianna>We're not killed in the lily here. Okay. But out of the gate, not bad. And this would go with anything. And we'll be back in just a minute with more. Welcome back, everyone. Today is one of good old boy Dave's special projects. It is a summer of questionable decisions, folks. And today we're getting into the tea. Spilling the tea. We're spilling the twisted tea.
• 11:17
  > Dave>Drinking the twee twinking.
• 11:18
  > Julianna>The twee twinking. Twinking, Twinking.
• 11:21
  > Dave>Twinking. Wait, what? No, we're not. Hold on.
• 11:24
  > Julianna>So right before the break, we started with our first comparison, or starting the first comparison. So we are doing twisted tea. This is the original. We rated the original. Now we are getting into the local non alcoholic counterpart, which just happens to be Nashville sweet tea. And good old boy Dave, you being a Southern boy and all, tell us, what is sweet tea?
• 11:52
  > Dave>I like to make. I like it to make my teeth hurt.
• 11:55
  > Dave>It's got to have a little, little chew to it as well. A little bit, you know, kind of swish it around there.
• 12:01
  > Julianna>So lots of sugar, viscosity.
• 12:04
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 12:04
  > Julianna>Okay, now when you talk about Southern sweet tea, do you also add anything to it or is it just tea and sugar?
• 12:12
  > Dave>I do not just tea and sugar. And obviously we're talking about black tea. Right. Because that is the basis, I think, for all of these drinks. That is the most common type of tea. Um, but the other thing I will say about the original twisted tea as well, um, These are all 5% ABV, so pretty low base, very sessionable kind of thing. M. They do have an extreme version that they are 8% ABV. We did not get those. Um, but if, if you're looking for something a bit more aggressive or assertive, I think you can go in that direction.
• 12:57
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 12:57
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 12:58
  > Julianna>So now that we've done that, let's talk about the Nashville sweet tea.
• 13:02
  > Dave>This is in my mind what I think of when I.
• 13:08
  > Dave>Quintessential sweet tea. It is sweet. It's not cloyingly sweet. Some people, Yankees probably would think it's that. And like, if you, if you like your tea, um, unsweetened or you like semi sweet or whatever, this is going to be a little bit too sweet for you. But if you're a southern sweet tea boy like me, this is pretty much on point. I really like this one.
• 13:33
  > Julianna>Okay. I feel it's a little viscous, but that's what I get when I drink any sort of sweet tea in this neck of the woods, you know? Um, anyways, what do you want to rate the sweet tea on its own?
• 13:51
  > Dave>I would say it is a four.
• 13:54
  > Julianna>Okay, very good. Now we are going to take a smidge, if you will, because we're trying
• 14:05
  > Dave>to approximate around 5%, you know.
• 14:07
  > Julianna>Right.
• 14:08
  > Dave>Alcohol. So we don't want to.
• 14:09
  > Julianna>Now this isn't a science. We're just, we're just doing it.
• 14:12
  > Dave>We're just winging it.
• 14:13
  > Julianna>Yeah, I know. We're uh, doing a little swirl and
• 14:20
  > Dave>so I can definitely taste the vodka in this. It cuts the sweetness a little bit, but. But it doesn't make it unpleasant.
• 14:29
  > Julianna>Okay, so the uh, what is. Are you willing to say that the MacGyver version of a twisted tea is.
• 14:40
  > Dave>So I, I guess here's the thing is like the vodka is a cleaner flavor than this malt base because basically they're, they're adding quote unquote beer to the tea. And so they're going to be off flavors. Plus this is production level thing where it's mass produced. So it's. The tea is probably not amazing.
• 15:04
  > Julianna>Amazing quality tea to start with. Okay.
• 15:07
  > Dave>Right.
• 15:07
  > Julianna>That's uh, fair.
• 15:08
  > Dave>And that's not why people are buying it. They want something that doesn't taste like beer. It's not a hard seltzer or whatever. It's like, oh, I'm just drinking tea, you know, with a little bit of booze in it.
• 15:19
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 15:21
  > Dave>So. But if, if you take a really nice southern sweet tea like this one, you had a pretty clean spirit, like vodka. You don't overload it.
• 15:31
  > Julianna>Right.
• 15:32
  > Dave>Which is gonna totally, you know, blast out all the tea flavor.
• 15:36
  > Julianna>Yeah.
• 15:36
  > Dave>You just want to zhuzh it up a little bit.
• 15:38
  > Julianna>Mhm.
• 15:39
  > Dave>I think this is the way to go.
• 15:41
  > Julianna>Sure. M. Because you're still getting the flavor
• 15:43
  > Dave>of the tea, still getting a good
• 15:45
  > Julianna>base, higher quality tea. And then you're getting a little buzz after.
• 15:50
  > Dave>Right. You're still getting a little buzz. You got a cleaner flavor. It's all good, you know, so.
• 15:56
  > Julianna>Yeah.
• 15:56
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 15:56
  > Julianna>And I'm a fan of this because it cuts that viscosity and it feels more like drinking tea.
• 16:02
  > Dave>Right. And it's gonna cut that sweetness a little bit for you heathens who don't like sweet tea. So there you go.
• 16:10
  > Julianna>It's just that we don't need excessive sugar, that's all.
• 16:14
  > Dave>Well, I'm already basically made of sugar, so it's not like I need more, but you know.
• 16:21
  > Julianna>Yeah. This is to maintain your homeostasis. Okay, so what do you want to rate the MacGyvered form?
• 16:29
  > Dave>I think it's way better. I think it's better than the twisted tea.
• 16:33
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 16:34
  > Dave>But it does impact the flavor of the base tea. So I would give this a 3. I think that's where we'll go.
• 16:41
  > Julianna>Okay. But not bad, right?
• 16:47
  > Dave>No, solid.
• 16:48
  > Julianna>Okay. Um, moving on. Then I guess we're gonna go into half and half territory.
• 16:54
  > Dave>Huh?
• 16:54
  > Julianna>Huh.
• 16:55
  > Dave>Which I. I'm gonna be honest. I've never been a fan of the Arnold Palmer, which is like half lemonade, half tea.
• 17:04
  > Julianna>Now, is that because you don't like lemonade?
• 17:06
  > Dave>I love lemonade. Okay. And I love tea. I just.
• 17:10
  > Julianna>But you don't like them together.
• 17:11
  > Dave>Right? And I like when you go to a restaurant, they're like, oh, do you want some lemon in your tea? I'm like, absolutely not. I just don't. And maybe it's because the acidity of the lemon cuts into the sweetness of the tea. Or they. It's just personal preference. I've never been that guy.
• 17:28
  > Julianna>Meanwhile, I love lemon in tea. And, uh, I.
• 17:34
  > Dave>Now, why do you like that?
• 17:36
  > Julianna>Because I've always had lemon in my tea. Even hot tea, it's always been served.
• 17:42
  > Dave>Now, see, hot tea, to me, is a different monster.
• 17:45
  > Dave>And I actually can have. I'm okay. I'm m. More okay with lemon and hot tea.
• 17:52
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 17:53
  > Dave>Than I am. But. But I also think hot tea, like, there's a bigger world, at least in my mind of hot teas than cold teas.
• 18:06
  > Julianna>True. But hot and cold, where I was raised, there were lots of lemons in with the tea. You know, if it was summertime with iced tea, there was a big pitcher of iced tea with a lot of ice cubes and there were a lot of lemon slices in there and. Or lemon juice sometimes was even tossed in there.
• 18:28
  > Announcer>Yeah, well.
• 18:28
  > Dave>And some people use lemonade as opposed to.
• 18:30
  > Julianna>Right, right, right. It really wasn't. We weren't big lemonade y folks. At least my family wasn't.
• 18:36
  > Julianna>But. Yeah, that's not to say we would
• 18:38
  > Dave>always have like, one thing of lemonade and one thing of tea.
• 18:42
  > Julianna>Gotcha.
• 18:42
  > Dave>But I don't think anybody put lemonade in the tea that I remember.
• 18:46
  > Julianna>Or vice versa.
• 18:47
  > Dave>Right. It was just like if you wanted lemon in your tea, you just cut a piece of lemon and chuck it in there.
• 18:52
  > Announcer>Gotcha.
• 18:53
  > Julianna>Okay, well, let's start with the twisted half and half. And what do you think of that? Honestly, I think the color on this is better than the original.
• 19:05
  > Dave>Closer. It's actually darker than the, uh, Non.
• 19:09
  > Julianna>But does that telling you that there's really.
• 19:11
  > Julianna>That there's a lot of lemonade in this?
• 19:14
  > Dave>Well, here's what I'll say. The original one tasted kind of turn. And it actually had this sort of pseudo lemony flavor in it. That was weird.
• 19:25
  > Dave>This one I actually like better.
• 19:27
  > Julianna>It's more.
• 19:28
  > Dave>Pretty good. Yeah.
• 19:29
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 19:31
  > Dave>I'm kind of down with this.
• 19:33
  > Julianna>I like the viscosity of this, and I think that this is more truer representation.
• 19:38
  > Dave>And I think the lemon masks those weird flavors too.
• 19:42
  > Julianna>We'll be back in just a minute. Welcome back, everyone. In true good old Boy Dave fashion, he is, ah, taking us for a wild ride. Uh, this is another episode of Summer of Questionable Decisions. M. And today, good old boy Dave. What are you doing to us? Oh.
• 20:10
  > Dave>Oh. For the show. Yeah. Sorry. So we have four flavors of Boston Beer Company, AKA Twisted Tea Brewing Company. Twisted Tea. Right. So we've already done the original. Now we're on the half and half, which is tea and lemonade. The tea, uh, the lemonade tea from Boston, uh, brewing or from Twisted Tea? I actually like it. And I'm not a lemonade in your tea kind of guy, but it kind of masks the weird flavors to me.
• 20:42
  > Julianna>It makes it more realistic. Yeah.
• 20:43
  > Dave>And it's actually pretty nice.
• 20:45
  > Julianna>Okay, what would you rate this?
• 20:47
  > Dave>I think we should go.
• 20:48
  > Julianna>What? Yeah, three. Um, okay, then. From the fine folks at Nashville, Sweet Tea. And again, this can be done with any tea, any tea you find at the store, Right? Exactly. Whatever you have regionally or nationally. Like, even, like the liptonite, you know, tea that comes in the can purely for bottle. This just happened to be what we have here that's readily available, but anything will work. This one is their version of a half and half, or in their eyes. It's called the sunshine tea. And the color on this is lighter.
• 21:36
  > Julianna>It's also very vis. It's opaque.
• 21:39
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 21:39
  > Julianna>But you would expect that, right. With having, like, a real lemonade added to the tea.
• 21:44
  > Dave>And I think that's a little bit of a distinction because a lot of times you go to a restaurant or something, you get tea with a slice of lemon.
• 21:51
  > Dave>That's one thing. But like the Arnold Palmer or the half and half is actually you make lemonade, you make tea, and then you split the difference.
• 22:02
  > Dave>Right.
• 22:02
  > Julianna>Yeah.
• 22:03
  > Dave>This is. This is that, you know, and I think I like this too. And it actually. The difference maker, to me between this and the Twisted Tea is the quality and depth of flavor of the tea.
• 22:18
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 22:18
  > Dave>Like if.
• 22:19
  > Julianna>And the lemonade too.
• 22:21
  > Dave>Yeah, I think so. But definitely in the tea, I get better, uh, a better tea flavor. More full flavor experience.
• 22:32
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 22:32
  > Dave>Than from the Twisted Tea.
• 22:34
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 22:35
  > Dave>Makes sense.
• 22:36
  > Julianna>It does. It does. Because it's mass production versus small Batch
• 22:42
  > Dave>kind of, you know, little home or
• 22:44
  > Julianna>something that you could essentially do at home.
• 22:46
  > Julianna>You know what I mean? Okay, so what would you rate the sunshine Tea on its own?
• 22:52
  > Dave>I think we're definitely going four. Yeah.
• 22:55
  > Julianna>Yeah. And honestly, this is the first time that we are having Nashville sweet tea tea.
• 23:04
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 23:04
  > Julianna>And yay. Right?
• 23:06
  > Dave>Yeah. Uh, I'm impressed.
• 23:09
  > Julianna>Okay, now we're doing a slightly zhuzhed version.
• 23:14
  > Julianna>Right.
• 23:14
  > Dave>We're making our own twist.
• 23:15
  > Announcer>Mhm.
• 23:16
  > Julianna>Making the own twist. And what does adding a neutral spirit add to the table or to the drink?
• 23:25
  > Dave>I should say it actually, it just, pardon the pun, peels back the lemon a little bit.
• 23:32
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 23:33
  > Dave>And just makes it all a little smoother and more like maybe like a mixture. Now, we don't have ice in ours. Mhm.
• 23:42
  > Julianna>Right.
• 23:42
  > Dave>We, we have them cold.
• 23:43
  > Julianna>Right.
• 23:44
  > Dave>But we don't have ice cubes in them or anything. I think if you had this on ice and you just sipped on it, it would be really nice.
• 23:53
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 23:53
  > Dave>And again, we're not being scientific about the.
• 23:55
  > Dave>The vodka we're putting in.
• 23:57
  > Julianna>No, we're just.
• 23:58
  > Dave>Just kind of eyeballing.
• 23:59
  > Julianna>Eyeballing it and eyeballing a. The same amount.
• 24:03
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 24:03
  > Julianna>In each cup that we're drinking. And uh, Yeah. I mean, I'm not noticing as much viscosity change between the first batch that we did and this batch.
• 24:17
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 24:17
  > Julianna>Uh, like that, the first one. Going from the sweet tea to the sweet tea and vodka in it.
• 24:24
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 24:24
  > Julianna>I noticed a big difference in the viscosity. It like cut and I didn't even add that much, but it just cut it just enough.
• 24:30
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 24:31
  > Julianna>Whereas with this one, I'm not. The viscosity wasn't as viscous to begin with because of the lemonade. It was a little chewier in a way, but that's just because the lemon, like the pulpiness of the lemonade, if that makes any sense.
• 24:47
  > Dave>Yeah. It feels like they're using really good
• 24:49
  > Julianna>lemonade in this because I could taste or I could feel like pulpiness, if that makes sense.
• 24:56
  > Dave>It's not like just some weird concentrate or.
• 24:59
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 24:59
  > Dave>Like, you know, whatever. Yeah.
• 25:01
  > Julianna>But going back to the adulterated version of the sunshine tea, it's still really good, right?
• 25:09
  > Dave>Yeah, Yeah. I think all it did was it just kind of smoothed everything out and it made it like it turned it in. It turned it from just a lemonade tea into a cocktail almost.
• 25:24
  > Julianna>Yeah, yeah, sure. Like something that's easily.
• 25:27
  > Dave>Yeah. It turned it into an adult beverage.
• 25:30
  > Julianna>Okay, very good. And what shall we rate this?
• 25:33
  > Dave>I don't know. What are you feeling?
• 25:35
  > Julianna>I think it's a four, two.
• 25:36
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 25:38
  > Julianna>Because honestly, I don't think the vodka took anything away.
• 25:41
  > Dave>It did not, uh, like, it definitely cut away in the original version a little bit, but I think in this one it actually just added another nuance to it.
• 25:51
  > Julianna>Yeah. Okay, moving on. Let's get into the peach varieties. Now, Peach in tea. I. I don't think peach, uh, tea is for everyone. Do you think so?
• 26:09
  > Dave>I'm not always a huge fruit tea. Now let me say this fruit tea is another southern staple.
• 26:18
  > Julianna>Oh, gosh, yes. That's another whole entity.
• 26:20
  > Dave>You go to like certain kinds of restaurants, like country style restaurants and stuff. They almost always have fruit teas. Or you go to a lot of some people's houses and stuff. They'll always have fruit tea or like church dinners and stuff.
• 26:33
  > Dave>Everybody has fruit tea or whatever, but
• 26:36
  > Julianna>that's a whole different animal.
• 26:38
  > Dave>Yeah. I think peach is just one example of a southern fruit that people know that you can.
• 26:47
  > Dave>Because it could be pineapple tea or you could do a lot of different
• 26:50
  > Julianna>things or multi fruits. Yeah. Okay, so after pouring both the, the Nashville Sweet Tea peach and the Twisted Tea peach, I think it's safe to say that the color is pretty much similar. Like almost dead on. What do you think, boss?
• 27:13
  > Dave>Yeah, they're. They're very closely aligned on color.
• 27:17
  > Julianna>Okay, so now let's get into the twisted version.
• 27:23
  > Dave>I'd say the, the non twisted is a little. Has a little more redness or pinkness to it, but.
• 27:31
  > Julianna>But I mean, but overall pretty darn close.
• 27:34
  > Dave>Now I get a very faint bit of peach aroma from the twisted one.
• 27:39
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 27:40
  > Dave>But from the non twisted, the Nashville Tea Company or Sweet Tea Company, it is very heavy peach aroma, which is nice.
• 27:52
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 27:52
  > Dave>But let's try the twisted. Me like, it's kind of there, but it's.
• 28:02
  > Julianna>It almost tastes kind of chalky at the end.
• 28:05
  > Dave>Yeah, It's like they, they used peach something, but maybe not peach.
• 28:18
  > Julianna>Like freeze dried peach powder or something. Like.
• 28:21
  > Julianna>I don't know. That's just the vibe I'm getting off of this.
• 28:23
  > Dave>Some sort of synthetic peach. Whatever. Um, I actually like this one less even than the original.
• 28:33
  > Julianna>Yeah, I'm not a fan of this at all. I. I think this would have to be super iced down in order to.
• 28:42
  > Dave>I think this would have to be about the seventh one. You have to enjoy it. So.
• 28:46
  > Julianna>Yeah. Because at that point, nothing's gonna matter. Okay. What do you want to.
• 28:50
  > Dave>That's just. It's a one. Yeah.
• 28:51
  > Julianna>Yeah, that's a Little disappointing, isn't it?
• 28:56
  > Dave>Yeah. I mean, I thought the first one was going to be the basement or the base, you know, but uh, yeah, they managed to.
• 29:06
  > Julianna>Well now moving on to the Nashville sweet tea Peach tea.
• 29:11
  > Dave>Mhm.
• 29:11
  > Julianna>Okay. The aroma is like overwhelming. Right. Like, like fresh peaches.
• 29:18
  > Dave>So it's sweet tea with a little bit of like, you know, if you poured some of the, the syrup from my canned, uh, peaches.
• 29:26
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 29:26
  > Dave>Into a glass of sweet tea.
• 29:28
  > Julianna>Sure. Yeah. It is really viscous. It's even more viscous than the original.
• 29:33
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 29:34
  > Julianna>Well, we'll be back with more in just a minute.
• 29:41
  > Julianna>Welcome back, everyone. Today we're doing another one of good old boy Dave's favorites. And that is a Summer of Questionable Decisions episode.
• 29:51
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 29:52
  > Julianna>So what the genius that is good old boy Dave came up with today was.
• 29:56
  > Dave>I have that recorded now.
• 29:58
  > Julianna>Well, yeah, uh, he got some twisted tea in various flavors.
• 30:05
  > Dave>Yep.
• 30:06
  > Julianna>And then from the grocery store he picked up some cans of local sweet tea.
• 30:13
  > Dave>Non alcoholic tea, non alcoholic.
• 30:15
  > Julianna>That match the flavors of the twisted teas. And we've been doing side by side tastings of what the twisted tea is, what the regular tea is. And then we've been zhuzhing a little with vodka just to give it that alcoholic effect.
• 30:30
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 30:31
  > Julianna>Now it's not spot on one uh, to one ratio, but it's close enough. And even though the twisted tea is malt based and we're adding a little vodka to it, it's still giving us that similar alcoholic ness to it.
• 30:48
  > Announcer>Yeah.
• 30:48
  > Julianna>Okay, so right before the break we were start, we were talking about the peach tea variety, both twisted and non twisted. And the twisted peach tea we rated A1.
• 30:59
  > Dave>It was our least favorite so far.
• 31:01
  > Julianna>So now in talking about the Nashville sweet tea peach tea, it's pleasant.
• 31:08
  > Dave>Like uh, again, I would probably just have the regular Nashville sweet tea or maybe even the have the sunshine tea, the half and half. Right. This uh, this peach tea though is pleasant. It's very, it's very nice. It's nice. Little bit of peach flavor that uh, the aroma. And let me say this, maybe the aroma on this one was the best so far.
• 31:35
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 31:35
  > Dave>Because it just. The peach comes out.
• 31:37
  > Julianna>Sure.
• 31:37
  > Dave>You know peaches smell great, right?
• 31:40
  > Julianna>Oh, they do, they do.
• 31:41
  > Dave>Um, but the flavor was, it was okay.
• 31:45
  > Julianna>The flavor didn't match the aroma.
• 31:47
  > Dave>Right. I. To me, I think. Uh, so I. Like I said drinking, I would take one of the others over it, but smelling. Oh yeah, I'm in it.
• 31:57
  > Julianna>Okay, fair. So what do you want to rate
• 32:01
  > Dave>the peach tea on uh, its own unadulterated peach tea. Yeah, it's a three.
• 32:06
  > Julianna>A three. Okay. Now we're going to zhuzh up a little.
• 32:11
  > Dave>Yeah. A little, little tater juice.
• 32:13
  > Julianna>Okay. And so for me, it cuts it a little. Yeah.
• 32:19
  > Julianna>And it makes it more equal in texture to the twisted tea.
• 32:23
  > Dave>Yeah. This one, it's a. Yeah, it's uh, it's like the sunshine tea in that it just sort of cuts through some of the, the sweetness and the. And the fruit flavor a little bit. Turns it into an adult beverage.
• 32:38
  > Julianna>Yeah. But I don't know that it does anything else to.
• 32:40
  > Dave>It doesn't.
• 32:40
  > Julianna>I mean, it's not supposed to but.
• 32:42
  > Dave>Or anything.
• 32:43
  > Julianna>Yeah.
• 32:43
  > Dave>But I think it is still far superior to the twisted tea version, which better tea, better peach flavor, just a little bit cleaner spirit.
• 32:57
  > Julianna>Yeah.
• 32:57
  > Dave>I mean, you're gonna get a better result.
• 32:59
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 33:00
  > Dave>So I think, I think it just. It stays a three.
• 33:03
  > Julianna>Sure. That's fair.
• 33:05
  > Announcer>Yeah.
• 33:08
  > Julianna>Okay. Last but certainly not least, raspberry. The raspberry. Yes. Now, in pouring both of them the color, again, very similar. I think if anything then, um, the peace tea, raspberry tea is a little, uh, redder.
• 33:30
  > Dave>Well, let's keep in mind too. Now, so this is the first one of the non alcoholics where we. We're head to veer away from the Nashville Sweet.
• 33:39
  > Julianna>Right, right, right. Well, it's the only one. But yes, we're revering away, but. But still it's got a, A redder. I mean, you can almost tell that it looks like it's a raspberry. Uh, right. Like it would be right with it. Okay. But tasting the raspberry twisted,
• 34:00
  > Dave>no major aroma m it. This one's very thin, weak raspberry flavor with a hint of tea.
• 34:17
  > Julianna>Okay. It's definitely very watery.
• 34:23
  > Dave>It's very watery. But it's better than the peach version because it's, it's. The peach version had a little bit of a sort of an offness about it.
• 34:33
  > Julianna>And this one isn't as.
• 34:34
  > Dave>Yeah, it's not as off.
• 34:35
  > Julianna>Okay. M. So this is in two territory.
• 34:39
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 34:40
  > Julianna>Yeah.
• 34:40
  > Dave>I think we could go two on this dog.
• 34:43
  > Julianna>Okay. So overall, and this isn't really completely surprising to us.
• 34:49
  > Dave>No.
• 34:49
  > Julianna>Because we, we had low expectations of the twisted tea.
• 34:53
  > Dave>I thought we weren't going to get out of the ones.
• 34:55
  > Julianna>Now granted, twisted teas are extraordinarily popular. I have talked to a lot of people lately, um, leading up to this episode, just to see how many people know twisted tea, what that, you know, like if they've ever had it. Blah, blah, blah. And a lot of people say that they. They like the convenience of it. Sure. Because it gives you that little alcoholic. But for a lot of people that don't like beer. Do not want beer or hoppy things.
• 35:29
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 35:30
  > Julianna>And don't want a heavier rtd. This is a good go to. Because the ABV on it is just right.
• 35:37
  > Announcer>Well.
• 35:37
  > Dave>And it's also. It's not really carbonated. So if you don't want. If you want something that's not, you know, CO2 kind of bothers you. You know, uh, it. It's pretty still, so you could just pour it over some ice and m. Sure.
• 35:52
  > Julianna>And this is very sneaky because to look at it, it just looks like tea. And if it's iced down enough, you're really not gonna.
• 36:00
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 36:01
  > Julianna>Notice.
• 36:02
  > Dave>And it's five.
• 36:03
  > Julianna>A lot of tea.
• 36:04
  > Dave>So you're not gonna get lit. Dude. You can have a few of them.
• 36:07
  > Julianna>Right.
• 36:08
  > Dave>You know.
• 36:08
  > Julianna>Okay. Now let's go to the peace tea.
• 36:12
  > Dave>Okay. Smells raspberry. Ish. It's a little sweet little.
• 36:23
  > Julianna>It's very viscous.
• 36:25
  > Dave>Little fake raspberry.
• 36:27
  > Julianna>Oh, it's very viscous.
• 36:30
  > Dave>This is, um. This is not great because this. This is like all sugar. They just loaded this thing with sugar and so it. So. So the raspberry already masks any sort of tea flavor there might be. Mhm.
• 36:47
  > Dave>And then all this sugar just blows it up.
• 36:49
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 36:50
  > Dave>So I would give.
• 36:50
  > Julianna>I almost feel like there's a balsamic enos to it too, because I'm. My, uh, salivary glands are going in overdrive.
• 36:58
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 36:58
  > Julianna>You know. Okay, so we're rating this one.
• 37:01
  > Dave>Yeah.
• 37:04
  > Julianna>Now let's see if it does anything better with vodka. With the vodka.
• 37:16
  > Dave>Just makes it taste like rasp. Cheap raspberry vodka.
• 37:19
  > Julianna>Okay. Uh, I mean, it cuts it.
• 37:22
  > Dave>It cuts the sweetness, but it. It does more to diminish the vodka than the vodka can do. Vodka can do to help it. So.
• 37:31
  > Julianna>Okay.
• 37:31
  > Dave>I'm not a fan.
• 37:32
  > Julianna>I think this is still a 1. M as well. Like it really hasn't. Okay.
• 37:40
  > Dave>Yes, it is a one.
• 37:41
  > Julianna>Sorry, Mike. Sorry that you're not here to enjoy the raspberry nest.
• 37:46
  > Dave>We're gonna save a raspberry twisted tea for you though, Mike.
• 37:48
  > Julianna>Oh, we're gonna save you all the raspberries. Yes, indeed. Okay. So moral of the story is the craftiness of our MacGyvering worked in its favor.
• 38:01
  > Dave>If you want to put the work into it and you really want to enjoy better flavor, make your own.
• 38:06
  > Julianna>Yeah. And the half and half really was the big winner.
• 38:10
  > Dave>Big winner.
• 38:10
  > Julianna>Yes. Well, that's going to do it for us today. And uh, good old boy Dave, thanks so much for another wonderful episode.
• 38:18
  > Dave>I can't wait to feed you more weird things. Things maybe even on the show.
• 38:26
  > Julianna>Wow. Uh, good old boy Dave, say goodbye.
• 38:30
  > Announcer>Bye.
• 38:30
  > Dave>Bye.
• 38:31
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• 38:36
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• 38:48
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• 39:42
  > Dave>Mhm.
• 40:05
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• 40:14
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